Book collectors -- United States -- 20th Century
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
James T. Babb Correspondence
Collection
Call Number: GEN MSS 1011
Abstract:
Incoming correspondence and outgoing typescript carbons, most 1965-1968, with some related writings and speeches by Babb, typescript carbon. Some correspondence concerns Yale University Library, Library acquisitions, donors Paul Mellon and the Beinecke family, and the founding of the Yale Center for British Art. Other correspondence relates to Babb's collecting of William Beckford and William McFee, or to his work in assembling a library for the White House, 1962-1967, including...
Dates:
1962-1968, bulk 1965-1968
Donald Clifford Gallup papers
Collection
Call Number: YCAL MSS 838
Abstract:
Correspondence, writings, research files, personal papers, photographs, printed material and other papers documenting both the professional and personal activities of Donald Gallup as scholarly bibliographer, editor, curator of the Yale Collection of American Literature, and book and manuscript collector on his own account. The majority of the collection consists of Gallup's own papers, including personal, professional and editorial correspondence; a small amount of personal papers; research...
Dates:
1754-2000, bulk 1920-1995